Jonas Salk Quotes

"Our greatest responsibility is to be good ancestors."

"Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next."

"The reward for work well done is the opportunity to do more."

"I feel that the greatest reward for doing is the opportunity to do more."

"Risks, I like to say, always pay off. You learn what to do, or what not to do."

"It is courage based on confidence, not daring, and it is confidence based on experience."

"Nothing happens quite by chance. It's a question of accretion of information and experience."

"I see the triumph of good over evil as a manifestation of the error-correcting process of evolution."

"Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality."

"I have had dreams and I have had nightmares, but I have conquered my nightmares because of my dreams."

"I am interested in a phase that I think we are entering. I call it "teleological evolution," evolution with a purpose."

"The worst tragedy that could have befallen me was my success. I knew right away that I was through - cast out."

"I think of evolution as an error-making and error-correcting process, and we are constantly learning from experience."

"As a child I was not interested in science. I was merely interested in things human, the human side of nature, if you like, and I continue to be interested in that. That's what motivates me."

"I see weeds and flowers. I think of it in those terms, and we have to discriminate and distinguish between the two, to recognize and encourage those human qualities and attributes that are the more positive."

"There are three stages of truth. First is that it can't be true, and that's what they said. You couldn't immunize against polio with a killed-virus vaccine. Second phase: they say, "Well, if it's true, it's not very important. And the third stage is, 'Well, we've known it all along."

"Some people are constructive, if you like. Others are destructive. It's this diversity in humankind that results in some making positive contributions and some negative contributions. It's necessary to have enough who make positive contributions to overcome the problems of each age."

"Why do I see things differently from the way other people see them? Why do I pursue the questions that I pursue, even if others regard them as, as they say, "controversial?" Which merely means that they have a difference of opinion. They see things differently. I am interested both in nature, and in the human side of nature, and how the two can be brought together, and effectively used."

"Now, some people might look at something and let it go by, because they don't recognize the pattern and the significance. It's the sensitivity to pattern recognition that seems to me to be of great importance. It's a matter of being able to find meaning, whether it's positive or negative, in whatever you encounter. It's like a journey. It's like finding the paths that will allow you to go forward, or that path that has a block that tells you to start over again or do something else."

Compiled by Thomas George
editor@Wisdom-of-the-Wise.com

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